The Baliem valley lies in Papua, a remote eastern region of Indonesia and home to some of the last peoples on earth to come into contact with modern civilization. When anthropologist O.W. Hampton visited in the 1980s, he found isolated peoples using stone tools, spears, and bows and arrows. Over the following ten years he documented life in the valley, including the making of stone axes and adzes—the last such tools to be in daily use on our planet. He collected sacred stones wrapped in orchid fiber and feathers, tools, net bags, and many other objects, and documented their uses in rituals of war and healing. In this book, author Christopher Buckley presents Hampton’s fieldwork alongside new studio photographs of his collection with detailed explanations.<\/p>\n
The book will be of value to archaeologists, anthropologists, students, collectors and curators of Papuan art, and anyone with an interest in how mankind lived in millennia past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A portrait of life in a remote region of Papua, shortly after first contact with the modern world, describing its stone tools, sacred objects, secret rituals, and war.
Preface
\nAcknowledgements
\nIntroduction
\nBud Hampton and the Baliem valley
\nAbout this book
\nConserving the Hampton Archive<\/p>\n
Background
\nThe island of New Guinea
\nThe Baliem valley
\nFrom first contact to the present day<\/p>\n
A catalog of objects in daily life
\nFiber
\nClothing and adornment
\nStone tools
\nBone and bamboo
\nStructures
\nAgriculture
\nFire and cooking
\nWeapons
\nWealth objects and sacred objects
\nPastimes<\/p>\n
Contexts
\nHafted stone and shell tools in the Asia Pacific region
\nFour societies: comparative material culture of New Guinea and nearby islands
\nAfterword: correlations between material culture and language<\/p>\n
Notes
\nBibliography
\nIndex
\nOnline resources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":57977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21582],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57976","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-reference","7":"author-by-author-christopher-buckley","8":"publisher-floating-world-editions","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n